The day tumbles forward. I lurch and bump my way through.
Rather than grouse and gripe, I offer up some visual poetry. These are photos by a woman in Paris, Nathalie Roze. Liliroze. Her work reminds me a bit of Sarah Moon's, her use of color and the slightly out of focus view. 
After I saw her website, I wrote to her to tell her how much I enjoyed her photographs, and she very graciously wrote right back. I am dying to ask her how she gets such saturated colors, but I will not.
She makes one wish that Polaroiod was going to stick around. I really like this work and want her to be very busy and to produce much, much more. Go look around.
It is nice stuff and I hazzard a guess that the colour is from colour reciprocity from long exposures. The colour in polaroid starts to act up after exposures longer than a quarter of a second.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure you could get similar results in photoshop.
In some ways I think that manipulation in photoshop is a more honest form of expression than relying on a media's characteristics.
I hold up to you as an example Jan Bernhardtz's work.
Some more pros for working with photoshop are that it's way cheaper, less polluting and far less wastful of resources than polaroid.
I'll try the longer exposures today. I'll let you know if that does it. I've always wondered how to get such deep colors with that film. Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteYou wrote (some time ago) in reply to the previous comment that you'd try some shots with longer exposure to test Razzbuffnik's reciprocity theory. Did you have any luck?
I have a box of type 59 5x4 colour polaroid still in the fridge and would like to try it too, but it's so rare now that I'd as soon hear your results first.
Thanks
Martyn
Martin,
ReplyDeleteNo, I never achieved those tones. Closer, though.